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Hello, I am writing to notify you of my concerns with the recently proposed carwash between Blvd Auto and The Kenzington. My house backs up to the proposed carwash site and I have many concerns with the proposal. The planning work so far has many gaps. Frankly I am concerned with the competence of the planning and zoning committee given these many gaps! I have the following concerns: 1. Placement in a residential neighborhood 2. Alley traffic and parking 3. Lighting 4. Pollution (Noise and Car Pollution) 5. Water management 1. Although the lot is zoned commercial, it is quite small and triangular. The lot butts up to residential housing on 2 of 3 sides. There will be a significant amount of traffic that will negatively effect property values. We already deal with significant traffic due to the Kenzington. The proposed site has a dumpster that faces the alley, which will result in more traffic. 2. Due to the street layouts in the area, increased alley traffic is very likely. This is an alley of single family homes where children frequently play and bike. Parking along our street is already significant at times. Just this week cars were displaced from the Kenzington parking lot due to a construction dumpster and a large crane! Currently Blvd employees park in the empty lot. Where will Blvd and Car Wash employees park once that lot is no longer available? There are not sufficient parking places indicated in the current plan, accounting for the Blvd staff parking. 3. Kenzington already has extremely bright lighting along the alley that is disruptive to the use of our home. We have had to install blackout shades in rooms facing the alley because of the parking lot lights in order to sleep in them! The addition of the car wash parking lot lights would add to the already present lighting problem, and further decrease the usability of all of our yards and south facing rooms. 4. I am VERY concerned about the poor air quality that will result in area yards due to the large volume of cars idling extremely close to my house. Car exhaust has been shown to increase the incidence of developmental delays such as autism. Has a study been done on the likely levels? Other area car washes have significant lines with idling cars for hours at a time. This will be located 20 feet from fenced yards where children play outside year round! Additionally, there will likely be significant noise pollution from the car wash and vacuum motors. I have not seen a study indicating how many decibels the motors will